Theodor Schröder (politician, 1860)

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Johann Georg Theodor Schröder (born March 8, 1860 in Kassel ; † October 2, 1951 in Karlshafen ) was a German administrative lawyer and politician who made outstanding contributions to social security .

Grave of Theodor Schröder in the main cemetery in Kassel

Life

education

After attending school in Kassel, Schröder studied law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , where he became a member of the Corps Hannovera , and at the University of Berlin . After completing his legal traineeship and assessor exams in Berlin, he received his doctorate in law in Göttingen. After completing his legal traineeship in Kassel, he became a court assessor there.

Association activity

Schröder is considered a pioneer and founder of the self-administration of social security and the cooperative system . After the law on accident and health insurance for people employed in agriculture and forestry came into force on May 5, 1886, assessor Theodor Schroeder, as head of department and representative of the governor (regional director) of the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau, is responsible for the day-to-day administration of the Hessian cooperative board -Nassau Agricultural Employer's Liability Insurance Association . He was therefore responsible for all of the tasks necessary to establish and build the organization. Only the decision on matters of fundamental importance was left to the provincial committee as the cooperative board.

In addition, he initially managed the business of the Hessen-Nassau State Insurance Company as Deputy Chairman of the Board of Management . He also made a name for himself early on with the gradual development of an association for the agricultural trade associations and the pension insurance institutions and was chairman of these associations after the First World War until well into retirement. After 1918 he played a prominent role in the reconstruction of the Hessen-Nassau agricultural trade association and the Reich associations of the German agricultural trade associations. Under his leadership, the associations were given a modern statute and progressive organization. The associations were henceforth active through offices and standing committees and were given greater independence vis-à-vis the supervisory bodies. During the Weimar Republic, the associations made a significant contribution to overcoming the fatal consequences of World War I and inflation on pension payments.

Schröder was also chief executive officer of the Red Cross in Kassel from 1914 to 1918 and from 1919 to 1929 a member of the provisional Reich Economic Council and association and honorary chairman of several social insurance cooperatives.

After forty years of successful work for the Hessen-Nassauische Landwirtschaftliche Berufsgenossenschaft and the state insurance company, Dr. Schroeder retired formally as President of the Hessen-Nassau State Insurance Fund, but he continued to work for the two Reich associations (the agricultural trade associations and the pension insurance).

Political activity

In addition, Schroeder was politically active for more than 25 years. From 1903 to 1918 Schroeder was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives for the National Liberal Party . There he was one of the leading members of the national liberal faction. From 1919 to 1924 he worked as an honorary alderman and syndic of the city ​​of Kassel , where he was chairman of the school commission. From 1919 to 1929 he was a member of the left-liberal German Democratic Party in the Hesse-Nassau provincial and municipal parliament .

Awards and honors

In 1927 he received an honorary doctorate from Dr. med. hc from the University of Marburg .

In 1951 Schröder was made an honorary citizen of the city of Kassel .

Fonts

  • On the history of the Reich Association of German Agricultural Professional Associations. In: 50 Years of Agricultural Accident Insurance 1939 (with a portrait of Hermann Kätelhön )
  • Family tree of the Schroeder (Schröder) family in Gödestorf (Hanover) and Kassel (Hesse) , 1936.

literature

  • Florian Tennstedt:  Schroeder, Johann Georg Theodor. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 576 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • F. Ruland: The history of the Association of German Pension Insurance Institutions (VDR), in: Deutsche Rentenversicherung 60, 2005, pp. 354–61
  • Heinrich Ferdinand Curschmann : Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen, Volume 1: 1809-1899 Göttingen 2002, p. 220, No. 713
  • Agricultural and forestry professional association Hessen (Ed.): 110 years of agricultural accident insurance in Hessen , 1998
  • Florian Tennstedt : Heinrich Noetel and the beginnings of accident prevention in German agriculture - a study on the history of the "Association of German agricultural professional associations. In: Social security in agriculture. Prevention in agricultural social insurance , Federal Association of agricultural professional associations, 1976 1976, p . 117 ff. ( Online )
  • Florian Tennstedt: Social history of social insurance, In: Maria Blohmke et al. (Ed.), Handbuch der Sozialmedizin, Volume III, Ferdinand Enke Verlag, 1976, pp. 385–492 ( online )
  • Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 1: Social politicians in the German Empire 1871 to 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6 , p. 144 ( online , PDF; 2.2 MB).
  • D.-J. Schäfer: 75 years of the Association of German Pension Insurance Institutions. In: Deutsche Rentenversicherung 49, 1994, pp. 571–636
  • Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. German business publisher, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 .
  • August Ludwig Degener: Who is it? Verlag Herrmann Degener., 1928

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Florian Tennstedt:  Schroeder, Johann Georg Theodor. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 576 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ a b Theodor Schröder's curriculum vitae on the pages of the city of Kassel
personal data
SURNAME Schröder, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schröder, Johann Georg Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1951
Place of death Karlshafen